In Class: Chapter 12 General

Chapter 12 talked about our ways to create texts and items that argue for something. It establishes the kinds of discourses one can use and the different aspects that are very important in conveying your purpose. They cover very direct arguments that can be shocking for effect such as the drunk driving picture we encountered early in the book (chapter 4 maybe?), logical arguments that appeal to the people who are somewhat educated about the specific topics, emotional arguments (again like the drunk driving ad) that play off peoples feelings toward the topic, and there can be a variety of undertoned messages that do not blatently stand out to the viewer/reader but if you notice the right things it becomes quite obvious what it is trying to convey.
After having read Chapter 12, we can collaborate as a group and decide the mediums we would like to use for each of our 3 arguments and how we want to convey our specific argument for each source. I imagine we are going to use a few different kinds within each argument to better layer our work with detail.